The dark side of literacy : literature and learning not to read / / Benjamin Bennett
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| Autore: |
Bennett Benjamin <1939->
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| Titolo: |
The dark side of literacy : literature and learning not to read / / Benjamin Bennett
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809 |
| Soggetto topico: | European literature - History and criticism |
| Literature, Modern - History and criticism | |
| Books and reading | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Reading and the theory of reading -- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading -- Dante and the invention of the novel reader -- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading -- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. Faustus -- Intransitive parody and the trap of reading : what reading really is -- Kleist, Kafka, and the refutation of reading -- The parting of the ways : a concluding note on the novel and literary studies. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A radical critique of the concepts of 'reading' and 'the' reader as they are commonly used in literary criticism. The book sketches in broad terms the historical provenance of 'the' reader, in an argument that includes discussions of Dante Boccaccio, Cervantes, Marlowe and German idealist philosophy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dark side of literacy |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-4100-9 |
| 0-8232-4766-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827762003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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